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RE: OMG Guns Everywhere
May 12, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Sam Harris (not that I'm impressed with him generally) criticized the focus on heavy duty guns. He said a hunting rifle could be about as dangerous from the right vantage point.
Even so, it's better to limit the array of choices the potential attacker has. To have it as a collector's item is probably the only legitimate use for a machine gun.
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RE: OMG Guns Everywhere
May 12, 2014 at 3:52 pm
Yet in the nearly 80 years since NFA put the first restrictions on the private ownership of machine guns in the US the only murder conviction of someone using a legally owned one was of an Ohio police officer who used his privately held MAC-11 to murder an informant. The current laws covering the private ownership of machine guns appear to me to be working just fine.
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RE: OMG Guns Everywhere
May 12, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Tell you what. As soon as you can provide me with a reason to rethink my position on the current laws covering private ownership of machine guns I will rethink my position. Until then the current system appears to be working just fine.
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RE: OMG Guns Everywhere
May 12, 2014 at 4:23 pm
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I lost perspective. We're discussing the option of further restrictions.
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RE: OMG Guns Everywhere
May 12, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(May 12, 2014 at 3:17 pm)abtaylor Wrote: Pistols, Machine Guns, all the kinds, theyre all legal
Oh, dear. Your knowledge of firearms, firearms laws, and the issues is sorely lacking.
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